ITC-ACHS Services

Hardware

ACHS has the following hardware for academic work:

  • Laser Densitometers
  • Codonics dye sublimation printer (color and grayscale)
  • HP 4700dn Color Laser printer
  • Nikon 35mm Slide Scanners (PC and Mac)
  • Video Digitizer (Mac) -Digital video capture available
  • VHS, SVHS, mini DV or attach your source
  • Flat-bed Scanners, including large format (Mac)
  • CD Writers and DVD Burners (PC and Mac)
  • Film recorder for making 35mm slides
  • X-ray Film Scanner
  • High Magnification Microscope (bright field, dark field and fluorescent) with 12 MegaPixel Olympus Camera
  • Low Magnification Microscope (bright field, dark field and fluorescent) with 12 MegaPixel Olympus Camera
  • Digital Camera
  • 11 Macintosh computers
  • 13 PC computers
  • 1 Unix workstation
  • 1 Linux workstation

Software

ITC-ACHS provides a variety of specialized software for data acquisition, image analysis, molecular modeling, and data visualization including:

  • Gel/X-ray/Autoradiogram Image Analysis Packages:
    ImageQuant (Windows and Mac) - site licensed*

    *The Windows 3.1 and 95/98/ME package may be downloaded through Meduser. You will need to have a Meduser account to access the software. To obtain a copy of the Windows NT/2000/XP and Mac versions contact the microcomputer consultants at ACHS.
  • Image Analysis and Multimedia Packages:
    • Adobe Photoshop 8.0 (Windows and Mac)
    • iMovie & Final Cut Pro, Express, Final Cut Studio (Mac)
    • Image-Pro Plus 4.5 (Windows)
    • Macromedia Freehand 10.0 (Windows and Mac)
  • Gene/Protein/DNA Sequencing Packages:
    • GCG (Unix-based)
    • PHYLIP (Unix-based)

Printing

Two laser printers and two dye-sublimation photo quality printers are available at ITC-ACHS. Printing to the dye-sub printers is restricted to medical/clinical research prints and carries a charge to the users' department account. Grayscale and color printing is available with the dye-sub printers.

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Special Projects Program

ITC-ACHS also provides a program to provide intensive support for selected faculty projects for a defined period of time (3-9 months). Faculty can apply for 10-15% of a staff person's time over this period to develop (and hopefully complete) a research computing project. Awards for these special projects are made based on the availability of staff, in-house expertise, time required to complete the project, and potential benefits of the project to other departments in the Health System. For more information, contact the ITC-ACHS office via email at achs-secretary@virginia.edu or by telephone at 982-4025.

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